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| The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| The sound of tireless voices is the price we pay for the right to hear the music of our own opinions. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| The human race has improved everything, but the human race. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| An editor is someone who separates the wheat from the chaff and then prints the chaff. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal -- that you can gather votes like box tops -- is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
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| I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| Flattery is all right if you don't inhale. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| Freedom is not an ideal, it is not even a protection, if it means nothing more than freedom to stagnate, to live without dreams, to have no greater aim than a second car and another television set. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| We have confused the free with the free and easy. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| A hungry man is not a free man. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| Golf is a fine relief from the tensions of office, but we are a little tired of holding the bag. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| Under the wide and starry sky. Dig the grave and let me lie. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| Laws are never as effective as habits. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
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| It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts! | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| The Republicans stroke platitudes until they purr like epigrams. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| We mean by ''politics'' the people's business -- the most important business there is. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
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| All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| A free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| Some people approach every problem with an open mouth. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| I sometimes marvel at the extraordinary docility with which Americans submit to speeches. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations--great or small--to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
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| Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
| Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them. | Adlai E. Stevenson | 1900-1965, American Lawyer, Politician |
